The pitch-black dragon rose, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, its enormous black shadow blotting out the entire sky.
"What a huge dragon! Among the dragons of the west, none but Dragon King Enqi has a form that large!"
The silver-haired elf Borli took the great bow from his back, nocked an arrow, and drew the string as he spoke gravely.
The brown-haired girl from the Fox Clan raised her longsword. Her face was resolute, and a firm resolve for vengeance lay deep in her eyes.
Seeing the dragon rise, she shouted.
"Comrades, slay the dragon!"
"Slay the dragon!"
The dwarf warrior and the Human Race Great Swordsman also roared, charging forward according to their earlier tactics.
The gnome girl Molly stood behind the silver-haired elf, preparing her spells.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yang began circling around to the side, preparing a surprise attack.
Yet although their tactics worked perfectly at first, the pitch-black dragon's strength exceeded the A-Rank power they had originally anticipated.
Since most deities were now King-Rank, everyone had assumed that the pitch-black evil dragon, which avoided the deities, was below King-Rank.
But now it seemed that this evil dragon was likely no weaker than King-Rank, if not stronger.
Yet Demonic Element had arisen only a hundred years ago. Even the heroes celebrated throughout the world, with their powerful gifts for Demonic Element affinity, were now only equivalent to peak A-Rank beings.
Still, things had come to this. Why retreat?
The Silver Folk did not lack the courage to face powerful foes!
Even if none of them had reached A-Rank.
"Charge!"
The dwarf warrior and the red-haired Human Race Great Swordsman hefted their weapons, summoned all their courage, and launched a death-defying charge at the pitch-black evil dragon!
They stirred their Demonic Element, and the powers of earth and flame enveloped their warhammer and greatsword!
The silver-haired elf was the strongest, close to A-Rank, so he loosed seven arrows in succession, his frosty Demonic Element carrying perpetually cold ice and snow hurtling toward the dragon.
Molly raised her staff, and countless vines emerged from the earth, reaching to coil around the evil dragon.
The brown-haired girl flicked her longsword, releasing a faint streak of Sword Qi, and she too began running around the evil dragon.
The pitch-black evil dragon felt no threat whatsoever from the antlike Silver Folk before it.
With a thought, it decided to play with these antlike creatures and let them experience the power of the great demonic dragon.
"Lowly food, insignificant ants. Let the great Lord Kus see whether you have the power to hurt me!"
Soon, battle broke out.
To the Dragon-Slaying Team's despair, their attacks were too weak. Although Demonic Element could be used in many wondrous ways,
the power they could draw upon was still far too feeble.
The pitch-black evil dragon carefully felt out their attacks and actually began to critique them.
"These Demonic Element attacks—you call them magic, don't you? Too weak. Compared with those beings clinging to their last breaths who call themselves deities, you still need more seasoning."
"If this is all the strength you have, you might as well become my rations. Hahahaha!"
The evil dragon laughed wildly. Its patience had run out, and it was clearly preparing to kill the ants before it.
Every member of the Dragon-Slaying Team burned with fury, while an endless sense of helplessness also rose in their hearts!
The evil dragon was too strong.
"If we die, so be it! Today, we fight this evil dragon to the death!"
"Yes! Kill it!"
"Evil dragon, damn you!"
Everyone staked their lives on a single blow, unleashing their strongest attacks.
The silver-haired elf's cold face turned positively icy. He rallied every ounce of his vitality, energy, and spirit and loosed an arrow. Frost spread with murderous force, its chill piercing, as he unleashed an A-Rank attack that struck the evil dragon precisely in the eye. Fine threads of red blood appeared across its eye.
The pitch-black evil dragon's expression instantly changed. It flew into a towering rage, not because of that trace of pain, but because an ant had struck it down!
"You've hurt me for the first time! I will eat you, then plunge the world into turmoil!"
Billowing black vapor suddenly spread, and corrosive power once again appeared in the world.
The pitch-black evil dragon opened its enormous maw, and an incomparably dark, malevolent light began gathering within.
That boundless, endless might made every member of the Dragon-Slaying Team's expression change drastically.
The endless pressure made them feel the absolute suppression of superior power, and despair and fear began to shroud their hearts.
The brown-haired girl gritted her teeth. There was no surrender in her words, but she spoke to everyone with deep remorse.
"I've doomed you all! I'm sorry!"
Meanwhile, the gnome mage Molly, already under the evil dragon's oppressive might, closed her eyes, bowed her head, and prayed.
"Deities above..."
Seeing their expressions, the evil dragon felt greatly satisfied. Although it felt as though something was missing, it no longer cared. It ought to dispose of these ants before it, then finish what it was supposed to do.
Just as it was about to send them to heaven with a blast of corrosive light, a longsword gently tapped its enormous mouth.
Instantly, as though pinned beneath a mountain, it was forced to close its jaws. Like a dud, the corrosive beam made a "pfft" sound inside its throat.
Like the sound of someone croaking~
The evil dragon's old, pitch-black face flushed red.
It raised its eyes and saw a noble figure with golden hair and golden eyes standing in midair, holding a longsword lightly, his face smiling.
As though fate had been overturned, endless majesty began to envelop it, like a god descending to the mortal world.
In front of it, the members of the Dragon-Slaying Team also looked in astonishment at the figure in midair, as noble as a deity.
A majestic, indifferent voice issued from the deity's mouth, seemingly carrying the fiery wrath of the sun above.
"Evil dragon, just how do you intend to plunge the world into turmoil?"
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